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- - - - Mark Twain (Roughing It)

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Republican wins Central Valley state Senate race

GOP Cherry Farmer takes Senate

seat away from the Democrats

(Update - It appears the announcement that Republican farmer Andy Vidak won outright former Senator Michael Rubio's seat may have been premature: an updated vote count puts Vidak below the 50-percent-plus-one threshold he needed to surpass to avoid a runoff against his Democratic opponent, Kern County Supervisor Leticia Perez.

An updated total posted on the Secretary of State's website at 3:21 this afternoon gave Vidak 49.8 percent of the vote and Perez 43.8 percent.

Observation. I find it interesting that the "extra votes" that are found after election day always vote Democrat. Just an observation.)

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A Republican has won a hotly contested state Senate contest in the southern San
Joaquin Valley, with his top Democratic rival conceding Wednesday that the race
will not go to a runoff.

With 100 percent of precincts reporting, Vidak -- a Republican from Hanford -- won 51.9 percent of the vote in Tuesday's special election for the vacant seat.

Democratic challenger Leticia Perez -- Kern County's 5th district supervisor -- won 41.7 percent of the vote. She conceded early Wednesday morning and congratulated Vidak on the victory.

The special election victory by Hanford cherry farmer Andy Vidak will have no
practical effect on the state Senate, where Democrats retain a supermajority,
but serves as a psychological boost for the party after massive GOP losses in
recent election cycles.

Democratic Kern County Supervisor Leticia Perez, of Bakersfield, and Senate
President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, both ceded the 16th Senate
District race to Vidak. Perez has raised more than $1.1 million, largely from the state party, Senate Democrats in Sacramento and political action committees. Vidak raised more than $850,000, with a lot of cash from district agriculture, and an assist from Senate Republicans and the Tulare County GOP. Adding another Republican senator increases the hurdle for Democrats to reach the two-thirds majority needed to pass tax hikes and puts the GOP in a stronger position heading into next year's elections, said Senate Minority Leader Bob Huff, R-Diamond Bar reports the San Jose Mercury News.

. "It's a big shot in the arm," he said. "The district just sent a pretty conservative salvo across the bow of the Democratic majority." Vidak's campaign did not immediately return multiple telephone calls seeking comment. Democrats won two-thirds majorities in both legislative chambers in November. That was the first time since 1933, when Republicans did it, that one party has held simultaneous supermajorities in the Assembly and Senate.

Vidak, who narrowly lost a congressional bid in 2010, had 52 percent of the
vote, enough for an outright victory.

Democrats have a large registration edge in the 16th Senate District—50
percent to Republicans' 31 percent—but three Democratic candidates and a Peace
and Freedom Party candidate split the left-leaning vote. That cleared the way
for Vidak to win a simple majority.

Democrats also blamed low voter turnout in their regions coupled with a
relatively high turnout in Vidak's stronghold of Kings County.
Steinberg issued a statement congratulating Vidak while suggesting that Perez
might make another run for higher office. Vidak will have to defend the seat in
2014.
"Special elections are unique voter-turnout environments, and this is clearly
not the last we've heard of the immensely talented Supervisor Perez," Steinberg
said.
Next year's election for a full Senate term will be under different district
boundaries, drawn by the state's independent redistricting commission in 2011.
The new 14th Senate District will encompass all of Kings County and parts of
Fresno, Kern and Tulare counties. According to the California TargetBook,
current voter registration in that district is 48 percent Democratic, 31 percent
Republican and 17 percent no party preference.

"In 18 months, this will be a new race in a new district with a very
different turnout model," said Jason Kinney, a political consultant for Senate
Democrats.
Democrats will retain their Senate supermajority despite losing the seat that
had been held by Democrat Michael Rubio, of Bakersfield, who resigned in
February to work for Chevron.
The party still holds 28 seats in the 40-member Senate, leaving it with one
more than the supermajority needed to raise taxes, pass emergency legislation,
override gubernatorial vetoes and put constitutional amendments before voters
without Republican support.
The supermajority could be trimmed temporarily to the bare 27-member minimum
because Democratic Sen. Curren Price appears poised to leave for a seat on the
Los Angeles City Council. Price will leave the Senate in July if his lead from
Tuesday's election holds.

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Paul Gann and Howard Jarvis

Declared "Public Enemies #1 of the People's Republic" for daring to be the Fathers of the modern Taxpayer Revolt in 1978 with Proposition 13 and the Gann Spending Cap. Their crime was to tell the people that they have the right to keep their own money and not turn it over to their Marxist Overlords in Government.

Governor Ronald Reagan

Declared an "Enemy of the People's Republic" for daring to balance the budget, support capitalists, oppose Socialism, create jobs and wealth.

U.S. Senator Richard Nixon

Declared an "Enemy of the People's Republic" for daring from day one in office to vigorously and effectively oppose Communism at home and around the world.

Governor Frank Merriam

Declared an "Enemy of the People's Republic" for daring to send in National Guardsmen armed and with fixed bayonets and machine guns to put down a Communist Longshoreman's strike and for defeating Socialist Upton Sinclair for Governor in 1934.

U.S. Senator George Hearst

Declared an "Enemy of the People's Republic" for daring to show initiative and walk from Missouri to California, for going into farming, business, mining (the Comstock Load), creating wealth with his bare hands out of nothing and providing jobs for the people.

Governor and Senator Leland Stanford

Declared an "Enemy of the People's Republic" for daring to Found the California Republican Party in 1856, build the Central Pacific Railroad, create jobs, businesses and wealth. Founder of Stanford University.

Governor Romualdo Pacheco

Declared an "Enemy of the People's Republic" for supporting ranchers, gold miners and the capitalist creation of wealth and jobs.

U.S. Senator John C. Fremont

Declared an "Enemy of the People's Republic" for daring to support capitalists, gold mining and fight for his country.

About Me

"Stood in firelight, sweltering. Bloodstain on chest like map of violent new continent. Felt cleansed. Felt dark planet turn under my feet and knew what cats know that makes them scream like babies in night.
Looked at sky through smoke heavy with human fat and God was not there. The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later. Born from oblivion; bear children, hell-bound as ourselves, go into oblivion. There is nothing else.
Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose. This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not God who kills the children. Not fate that butchers them or destiny that feeds them to the dogs. It is us. Only us.
Streets stank of fire. The void breathed hard on my heart, turning its illusions to ice, shattering them. Was reborn then, free to scrawl own design on this morally blank world. Was Rorschach."
- - - Rorschach, Watchmen (1986)

California Gold Rush (1848 - 1855)

This was a time that is hated with a deep and seething hate by all Socialists, Communists and Statists. During the Gold Rush common men and women sought their fortunes in a new world without the benefit of the wise and learned counsel of overeducated and worthless bureaucrats. People took the task of creating raw wealth into their own hands. No intellectuals were available to lecture the workers about the wonders of the eight hour day, worker's rights, unemployment insurance, workplace rules, "fairness" or early retirement. Intellectuals were neither wanted nor needed because intellectuals do not work for a living. The Intellectual Elite exists to tell everyone how smart they are and how everyone else is doing things wrong. Early California was a place for those who worked for a living.

Central Pacific Railroad

The Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR) is the former name of the railroad network built between California and Utah that formed part of the "First Transcontinental Railroad". It was rapidly built between 1863 - 1869. The "Golden spike", connecting the western railroad to the Union Pacific Railroad at Promontory, Utah, was hammered on May 10, 1869. Coast-to-coast train travel in eight days became possible, replacing months-long sea voyages and lengthy, hazardous travel by wagon trains. This project would never be built today in the Luddite People's Republic. There would be endless delays, environmental impact reports, labor unions, lawyers, court battles and Government Drones blocking every move.

Building the Golden Gate Bridge (1933 - 1937)

Financed and built by California in a record four years. The bridge ranks as one of the great wonders of the world stimulating the economy and creating endless jobs and wealth. Today it would never be built.

The People's Republic of California today

The #1 goal of the all powerful Big Brother State is the Marxist re-distribution of the wealth to the Elite so it can be used to buy votes in the next election. Today jobs and wealth are opposed by the Luddite Socialists because they claim it creates an un-equal society. Modern Californians are living off everything that was built by their ancestors. New projects that might create wealth are furiously opposed by an endless stream of Luddite-Leftist interest groups.

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